Timothy Keller Quotes About Salvation

Quotes about: Salvation

• To say doctrine doesn't matter, only how you live matters, is itself a doctrine. It's the doctrine of salvation by works.

  Timothy Keller

  Doctrine, Matter, Salvation

• All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

  Timothy Keller

  Change, Religious, Jesus

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.46, Penguin

• Life in this fallen world is to a great degree meaningless, our aspirations are constantly being frustrated, and sometimes the respectable people are oppressive and bigoted. And yet there is a Good that will triumph over Evil in the end. From a Christian perspective the problem with both kinds of stories is that they tend to blame problems on things besides sin and identify salvation in things besides God — and therefore are ultimately too simplistic.

  Timothy Keller

  World, Blame, Problem

  "Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work".

• For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation, that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.

  Timothy Keller

  Keys, Justice For All, Israel

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.34, Penguin

• At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a part - crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God's salvation.

  Timothy Keller

  Humanity, Sin, Lord

• The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.

  Timothy Keller

  Behavior, Salvation

• Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Father, Son

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

• God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

  Timothy Keller

  Life, God, Religious

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.44, Penguin

• In Ephesians 5, Paul shows us that even on earth Jesus did not use his power to oppress us but sacrificed everything to bring us into union with him. And this takes us beyond the philosophical to the personal and the practical. If God had the gospel of Jesus's salvation in mind when he established marriage, then marriage only 'works' to the degree that approximates the pattern of God's self-giving love in Christ.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Philosophical, Giving Love

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.30, Penguin

• Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and then restores the creation in which we can enjoy our new life together with him forever.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Forever, Together

• Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

  Timothy Keller

  Effort, Merit, Moral

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.69, Penguin

• This is the humbling truth that lies at the heart of Christianity. We love to be our own saviors. Our hearts love to manufacture glory for themselves. So we find messages of self-salvation extremely attractive, whether they are religious (Keep these rules and you earn eternal blessing) or secular (Grab hold of these things and you’ll experience blessing now).

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Lying, Heart

• If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.

  Timothy Keller

  Trying, Add, Littles

• Where you find your significance is where you find your salvation.

  Timothy Keller

  Salvation, Significance, Presbyterians

• To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, Character

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• Marriage is so much like salvation and our relationship with Christ that you can’t understand marriage w/o looking at the gospel.

  Timothy Keller

  Christ, Our Relationship, Salvation

• If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?

  Timothy Keller

  Salvation, Ifs

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